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What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

Training TensorFlow models in C

Python is the primary language in which TensorFlow models are typically developed and trained. TensorFlow does have bindings for other programming languages. These bindings have the low-level primitives that are required to build a more complete API, however, lack much of the higher-level API richness of the Python bindings, particularly for defining the model structure.

This gist demonstrates taking a model (a TensorFlow graph) created by a Python program and running the training loop in a C program.

The model

Training TensorFlow models in C++

Python is the primary language in which TensorFlow models are typically developed and trained. TensorFlow does have bindings for other programming languages. These bindings have the low-level primitives that are required to build a more complete API, however, lack much of the higher-level API richness of the Python bindings, particularly for defining the model structure.

This file demonstrates taking a model (a TensorFlow graph) created by a Python program and running the training loop in C++.

	#!/bin/bash

	# Script for installing tmux on systems where you don't have root access.
	# tmux will be installed in $HOME/local/bin.
	# It's assumed that wget and a C/C++ compiler are installed.

	# exit on error
	set -e

	TMUX_VERSION=1.8

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	# created by shuichinet https://gist.github.com/shuichinet
	# forked from https://gist.github.com/shuichinet/8159878 21 Nov 2015
	# using minor edits by fcrimins https://www.reddit.com/user/fcrimins from https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/2xzgyv/remove_duplicate_songs_from_google_play_music/csh6mrh
	# also using clever edits by Morgan Gothard https://medium.com/@mgothard
	# updated for Python 3.5 by John M. Kuchta https://medium.com/@sebvance 22 Nov 2016 (hey I was busy)
	# compiled by John M. Kuchta https://medium.com/@sebvance
	# thanks to shuichinet, fcrimins and Mr. Gothard for their work

	cd ~
	mkdir dev_tools
	cd dev_tools

	## download SIP source code
	wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyqt/files/sip/sip-4.16.7/sip-4.16.7.tar.gz
	tar zxf sip-4.16.7.tar.gz
	cd sip-4.16.7
	python configure.py
	make